On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:18 AM, David Craven <da...@craven.ch> wrote: > Some basic USE flags would be nice, even if it's just used for > documenting which configure-flags and inputs are needed for which > feature. I think this would also resolve the sorting inputs > alphabetically issue, since there would be real metadata there instead > of just a source comment.
USE flags a la Gentoo are not compatible with Guix because it means that package expressions are no longer self-contained and rely upon external global state. That means that builds are no longer deterministic. When the result of building a package with all the bells and whistles is too bulky, we make variants that are more stripped down. > This requires python2-sphinx to be installed when building even if you > are not interested in the doc output. Which is fine. When downloading a substitute of either output, python2-sphinx shouldn't be referenced and thus does not need to be installed. - Dave
